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HONORED ON PANEL 35E, LINE 52 OF THE WALL
RICHARD ALAN BALLHEIM
WALL NAME
RICHARD A BALLHEIM
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35E/52
DATE OF BIRTH
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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LEFT FOR RICHARD ALAN BALLHEIM
POSTED ON 11.6.2012
POSTED BY: Ed Cardon
Salute from a Wolfhound
I did not know CPL Ballheim but I served with the 25th Infantry Division (1-27th Infantry Wolfhounds) from 1969-70. I salute your Service and Sacrifice. May you find the peace of the Lord and your family and friends as well.
POSTED ON 10.16.2012
POSTED BY: Shari Kirkpatrick
Remembrance
photo provided by Bob Ballheim (Brother)
POSTED ON 12.31.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Richard is buried at Westview Cemetery, La Porte City, IA.
POSTED ON 1.17.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson ( same name as best friend)
Never Forgotten
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
POSTED ON 11.10.2003
POSTED BY: Haley Grace
Remembering the Soldiers
During the time of war soldiers take many sacrifices. On behalf of Gridley High School's history class of Gridley IL, I would like to thank and recognize Richard Alan Ballheim for giving his life for the United States. He will never be forgotten for what he gave up.